From Pappa With Love

Heart to Heart
Personal from Pappa Joseph
You and I are here today, wherever we are now, for one purpose - to have a relationship. Not just human beings, but every living thing on earth exists for a relationship - cat, dog, ant, plant. But that’s not all. Every single nonliving object on earth, Read more

Bread for the World

Worldwide consumption of cocoa products continues to grow at about 2-3 percent or 60,000-90,000 MT per year. This includes steady growth in the area of dark chocolates, which command premium prices. Projections show global production remaining behind the increasing demand, indicating that there is Read more

Insights for Good Governance

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In 2001, an unwise law came into effect all over the nation. Nobody can kill a stray dog anymore. Within the next ten years, India’s stray dog population skyrocketed, with the result that no other country suffers so much from dog bite and rabies. Numbering in Read more

English Without Borders

after
Don’t use ‘after’ before a verb with ‘having’ in it: ‘after having written’, ‘after having eaten’, etc.
Unidiomatic: ‘After having texted the message to Martha, Jack waited with bated breath for her response.’
‘having texted’ means ‘after Read more

Books by Pappa

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The boss’s head seemed directly perched on his torso, for his neck was lost under his overlapping pink jowls. And, fittingly, he wore gold-rimmed spectacles. His hair had receded over the years from either side of the forehead and now stood in firm Read More